A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating_class of nearly one_thousand at Yale ; that_is , about one-half of one per_cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which professes to be `` national '' .

A Yale historian , writing a_few years ago in The Yale_Review , said : `` We in New_England have long_since segregated our children '' .